<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Please see forwarded message and reply to the contacts provided. </span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">best regards</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">M. Giovanna Ranalli<br><br>~ Dipartimento di Economia, Finanza e Statistica<br>~ Sezione di Statistica<br>~ Via Pascoli<br>~ 06123 Perugia - Italy<br><br>~ Tel +39 075 5855939<br>~ Fax +39 075 5855950<br>~ url: <a href="http://www.stat.unipg.it/~giovanna">www.stat.unipg.it/~giovanna</a></span></font></div></div></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "></span></font></span></font><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Begin forwarded message:</span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'">From: </font></font><font style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'">Lyberg Lars VL-S <<a href="mailto:lars.lyberg@scb.se">lars.lyberg@scb.se</a>></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'">Date: </font></font><font style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'">June 24, 2009 3:02:43 PM GMT+02:00</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'">Subject: </font></font><font style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'">5-day Course on Measurement Errors in Surveys, September, Sweden</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div> </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Please distribute the following announcement in your organization<br><br><br><br>5-day Course on Measurement Errors in Surveys<br><br><br><br>When: 21-25 September 2009<br><br>Where: Arild in southern Sweden<br><br>Registration deadline: July 10, 2009<br><br><br><br>Main speakers and topics are:<br><br><br><br>Paul Biemer, RTI International, Latent class analysis<br><br><br><br>Mick Couper, University of Michigan, Web survey design<br><br><br><br>Joop Hox, Utrecht University, Multi-level analysis<br><br><br><br>Edith de Leeuw, Utrecht University, Selected topics from the International handbook on Survey Methodology<br><br><br><br>The main speakers will give about eight 45 min lectures each. There will also be contributed sessions.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Reliable measurement is essential in surveys. This course covers some important aspects of measurement: reducing measurement error through good design, both in traditional surveys and in web surveys, and analysing measurement error with latent class models and longitudinal models. The course will give you insight into both theoretical and practical issues. The target audience is doctoral and master students in general and people working with survey methodology.<br><br><br><br><br><br>The International Association of Survey Statisticians sponsors the course.<br><br>For further details including registration see<br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.statistics.su.se/ecas/">http://www.statistics.su.se/ecas/</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>Best regards,<br><br><br><br>Lars Lyberg<br><br>Director General's Office<br><br>Statistics Sweden<br></span></font></div></blockquote></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div></div></span></div></div></body></html>